“If you resolve the aesthetic issues in any given piece, you’ve also worked out the psychological ones, albeit through the back door.” An interview with Maggie Nelson. | The Los Angeles Review of Books

An argument against the emphasis placed on youth in acknowledging and accrediting emerging writers. | The New York Times

“I’m writing for black people… I don’t have to apologize or consider myself limited.” An interview with Toni Morrison. | The Guardian

On the lasting significance and relevance of Sappho, who “still haunts and surprises us.” | NYRB

Acknowledging “the gap between what really was or is, and what is said about it”: on the poetry and translations of Sawako Nakayasu. | Hyperallergic

Measuring dicks, both literally and metaphorically: on Hemingway’s and Fitzgerald’s sexual anxieties. | The Paris Review